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Chimpanzee populations living in relatively close proximity are substantially more different genetically than humans living on different continents, according to a study…
The Wellcome Trust today announces its two new Engagement Fellows - Professor Roger Kneebone from Imperial College London and Dr Erinma Ochu from the University of Manchester.
The heads of the three main funding bodies for bioscience research in the UK have today written an open letter to the vice-chancellors and principals of universities and…
Research aiming to improve the delivery of proven, cost-effective interventions to reduce the burden of malaria must go hand-in-hand with studies to understand the biology…
Students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales today receive the results of their A-level examinations. The number of students taking A-level sciences and mathematics has…
People with mental health problems have a lower life expectancy, according to a large-scale population-based study published today in the ‘British Medical Journal’. The…
The longlist for the £25 000 Wellcome Trust Book Prize was announced yesterday, bringing together a varied range of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness…
Hopes of at last controlling malaria in Africa could be dashed by the emergence of poor-quality and fraudulent antimalarial medicines, warn experts writing in ‘Malaria…
Students from five secondary schools, who have been taking part in a unique initiative to carry out genuine academic research projects with universities, will come together…
The Wellcome Trust today launches a major new annual screenwriting prize, in association with the BFI Film Fund. The Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize aims to encourage high…
How do athletes move so fast and jump so high? As the world focuses on the extraordinary feats of human performance that will take place in London next summer, the Wellcome…
The burden of epilepsy in poorer parts of the world could be readily alleviated by reducing the preventable causes and improving access to treatment, according to a review…
Students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland today received the results of their GCSE examinations. Overall, the results are very encouraging, with the number of students…
The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, the largest ever study of the genetics behind common diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and coronary heart disease,…